I am the Photo Editor for my high schools yearbook, and managing photos is a pain.
we take over 10,000 photos a year,and need a good way to manage our photos.
If anyone can recommend a program that fits these needs, i would be very grateful.
here are the requirements we need.
1. be able to take care of all of our photos without crashing (we lost a lot of photos last year by using iphoto)
2. preferably some sort of file system or metadata templates to make sure our photographers get credit for their photos.
3. batch changing
4. since there are over 60 students working on pages, i would like the program to work well with our server, so that any student can easily access the photos and take them out, without messing with the originals.
5. works well with photoshop
6. and, since we run macs, it needs to be compatible
I have thought about using extensis's programs, but at 200 dollars a pop, its a lot of money for 30 computers (i called them to ask about large volume purchases, and have yet to recieve a call).
thanks in advance for everyones help